Otsego Revisited - the Flimsy

The second of my three tops to be webbed is done.

This is Otsego Revisited. 

48" x 60"

Otsego is a small town in Michigan

where my mother attended high school.

My favorite grandpa lived there when I was young

and his back yard was bordered with

the most fragrant sweet peas I've ever smelled.

When I saw Robin Picken's Sweet Pea and Lily line

at a local quilt shop, that layer cake

simply HAD to come home with me.

Scrappy greens from my stash

plus strips cut from that layer cake 

were combined with other fabrics from the stash

resulting in this saturated scrappy goodness.

And it looks just as good when rotated 180 degrees.

I'm not sure which way I like it best.

 Backing and binding strips . . . 

I'm so glad I gave these fabrics a second chance

after giving up on the first blocks I made.

Now Otsego Revisited is off to the

'waiting to be quilted closet.'

(more on that closet next week)

* * *

There's one last set of clipped blocks

to be webbed into a quilt top (Jingle Bells).

But then, instead of diving into Hello July's

scrappy red, blue, and cream tumblers as planned

I'm going to do something that was totally unplanned.

(spontaneity is seriously missing from our lives these days)

Bonnie Hunter has been sharing sneak peeks

of a design she's calling Appalachian Autumn.

I'm going to use these long stashed fabrics 

to create my own version.

I'm naming my impromptu project Resplendent 

which means

"brightly colored in an impressive way"

Time will tell if my results are impressive or not

but this quilt top will definitely be brightly colored.

* * *

And I finally figured out

why I was so unhappy with Sukoon.

It wasn't the quilt top at all.

It was the top paired with 

that hot pink elephant print.

When I put it alongside this Art Gallery owl fabric

I realized I just needed to change the backing.

Dilemma resolved.

Quiltdivajulie

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“Listen to your heart.  It knows everything.”

Paul Coehlo